# Repository directory for bloomreach - where to find?

**URL:** <https://community.bloomreach.com/t/repository-directory-for-bloomreach-where-to-find/1124>\
**Category:** Experience Manager (PaaS/OnPrem)\
**Created:** [May 28, 2019, 7:56am UTC](https://community.bloomreach.com/t/repository-directory-for-bloomreach-where-to-find/1124 "2019-05-28T07:56:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![skonka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8797f3/32.png) [@skonka](https://community.bloomreach.com/u/skonka)\
**Post date:** [May 28, 2019, 7:56am UTC](https://community.bloomreach.com/t/repository-directory-for-bloomreach-where-to-find/1124/1 "2019-05-28T07:56:33Z")

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When I run bloomreach in local and I see repository created under ${bre.home}/storage/repository with folders “meta”,“namespaces”,“nodetypes”,“privileges”. Where is the path set for the repository in the configuration?

I am trying to do a db migration following “[https://github.com/woonsanko/recipe-for-hippo-db-migration](https://github.com/woonsanko/recipe-for-hippo-db-migration)” where one of the steps asks to copy the repository directory. I am not able to locate it in my qa env, where I deployed the cms distribution on tomcat with oracle as db. Looking for help on where to find this repository directory.

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**Author:** ![machak](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/user_avatar/community.bloomreach.com/machak/32/1298_2.png) [@machak](https://community.bloomreach.com/u/machak)\
**Post date:** [May 28, 2019, 8:48am UTC](https://community.bloomreach.com/t/repository-directory-for-bloomreach-where-to-find/1124/2 "2019-05-28T08:48:59Z")

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If you don’t specify anything (which is not OK) it is created in webapps/cms/WEB-INF/storage folder.  
Best practice is to modify your startup scripts and point to a folder outside of tomcat folders, this is provided as java system property **-Drepo.path=/some/path**